Lazarow World-Hike-About: Zion National Park

LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT

San Ramon: At first, I thought it needed explanation. Not true. Top Left: "You're kidding me. After hiking 4 miles from the base below, you still want to climb up there...and snakes...?" The stance revealed it all. The rest is self-explanatory, too. (Not part of the formal trail either).

'LAZAROW WORLD HIKE-ABOUT: WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HIKE-ABOUT?'

Hike-about is an adventure that commenced June 2010. After storing our household movables, ridding ourselves of a house but retaining our 'home' together, we set off with the purpose of hiking in different parts of the world, not forgetting the home country, the USA.

Our primary focus is hiking to mountain peaks but any challenging hike will do just fine. Extended stays enable us to enjoy and experience living in various places amongst differing cultures. Hike-about has evolved into a way of life. It's also a process of discovery, both the world and ourselves.

We work and live 'on the road' but return to the city in which our grandchildren reside, every couple of months. This provides us the wonderful opportunity to be with them as well as a child or two, even three and of course, friends.

By the end of 2023, the blog contained over 1,560 hikes (less than that actually undertaken), each a set of pictures with stories and anecdotes from the trails. An index to the right allows the viewer to identify earlier experiences.

Finally, we are often asked about the journey's end. Our reply, as accurate as we can state, is: "When we are either forced to cease through health issues or the enjoyment level no longer reaches our aspirations, we will hang up the boots."

"A Life Experience As No Other: Dare to Seize the Day Together", published by Fulton Books, depicts our life on the road and mountains until the beginning of 2017. It has developed 'exponentially' since then.

Jenni and Jeffrey Lazarow

Whereas we continue to update the blog regularly, we circulate email notifications infrequently.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Zion National Park - day 2

Half-a-mile to go--straight-up

Well, all I can say is that we got back safely, Baruch Hashem. Today was composed of 2.5 miles of a very steep hike before a 1/2 mile of heart thumping, adrenalin pumping, rock climbing stuff.

A good time to hold me tight

There were many times on this Angels Landing climb, when I peeked down and thought to myself "why on earth am I here in this position"..... and then I looked up, grabbed the next chain and continued up. If one likes 'climbs', this is it! One has to navigate across 3 narrow bridges with 1500 ft of sheer drop offs on either side, to get to the summit. One bad calculation, and you're history. This is the third time we have done this climb and it does not get any easier. To top it off, coming down is no fun either - now one is actually looking "down" over the edges instead of up to the next level. WoW! It was great....maybe meshugah but great nevertheless.

Lazarow World-Hike-About